One giant leap for Bush's wingnut anti-science agenda

Bush is the man who believed climate change is a hoax and that the universe is only 6,000 years old - and thought that a manned mission to Mars would only take as much time as the first moon voyage.

This mind-numbing ignorance of science isn't harmless. It rubs off onto society - and certainly onto government agencies.

And society pays the price.

Now - in order to coddle Bush's Mars fantasy - NASA is using monkeys in experiments to model the effects of radiation exposure that might occur on a Mars mission.

This has resulted in criticism by animal welfare organizations.

Using monkeys in a potentially harmful test that won't even yield any useful results would be typical of Bushism. After all, Bush wasn't known as Curious George for nothing, and his administration was harmful and produced no useful results.

(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6530142/Nasa-plans-to-irradiate-monkeys-anger-animal-rights-groups.html)